Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown up if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers and witches had not been their forerunners; those who, with their promisings and foreshadowings, had first to create a thirst, a hunger, and a taste for hidden and forbidden powers?

As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

Thomas Jefferson

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

William Hazlitt

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

Rene Redzepi

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

Reason also is choice.

John Milton

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Thomas Jefferson

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Sherwood Smith

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

Ray Romano

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.

Harry Mathews

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Richard Courant